The alternative is collapse, unpredictable and merciless.

For countries on the brink, a merciless logic follows.

Police actions must be merciless, even if this means more controls and surveillance.

And six months after the merciless pounding of southern Lebanon, Hezbollah is as strong as it was before.

The means of this denial were the annihilation of offending populations the Jews foremost among them in a merciless attempt at social purification.

Simultaneously, governments, under merciless pressure from the bond markets, are introducing labor and product market reforms that they deemed politically inconceivable only a few quarters ago.

These pre designed massive and merciless acts of massacre were perpetrated with the intention of totally annihilating the people living in that territory due to their Azerbaijani origins.

Above all, the EU must accept that global trade is a merciless political game, played according to a paramount rule keep all of one s options open at all times.

Today, Iraq is both a witness to and a victim of the cruel, vicious and merciless attacks of international terrorists, who began their global campaign on 11 September 2001.

Their horrific and merciless tactics may shift, but their evil intentions remain the same to foment civil division and spread terror among innocent civilians throughout the country in an attempt to undermine the new democratic system.

Hamas was definitely deterred by Israel s merciless offensive, and Israel, whether it admits it or not, is bound to be deterred by the specter of Israeli leaders and army officers becoming the object of arrest warrants in Europe.